Word: focusing
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Rational Authority. The issue of Lonergan's approach to God became a principal focus of criticism at the Florida meeting, where Lonergan specialists were more than matched by "critical respondents." The participants heatedly debated whether any such system as Lonergan's could any longer hope to embrace all knowledge, and especially whether it could provide a proof of the existence of God. "He comes up with an argument for God out of the blue sky," objected Georgetown University's Louis Dupre. "He develops a concept of being into a concept...
Others who have been influenced by Lonergan also see him, in a somewhat different focus, as a major catalyst in their thinking. Notre Dame's David Burrell and John Dunne, Chicago Divinity School's David Tracy, and Humanities Professor Michael Novak of the State University of New York, all studied under Lonergan at the Gregorian, and each attributes his own free-roaming theological method to Lonergan's influence. "Insight gave me the freedom to go on through trusting my own understanding," says Burrell. "It is not the system," says Dunne, "but what Lonergan does. He moves from...
...power. The mass of the public may prove resistant to change, but that inertia is the critical variable. The public provides the climate, if not the specific cues, in which the government sets policy. That climate determines how well the ministry party pulls together on crucial issues. Crossman's focus would distort the decision-making process: consensus is needed in the party, coercion in the nation. He underestimates the multiple centers of power which prevail in a pluralist democratic electorate...
...focus of their alarm is a bill passed by, the Massachusetts Legislature on March 30-the same day it gave final approval to a bill testing the legality of the Vietnam war-which allows police to fingerprint and photograph persons arrested for any reason at a demonstration...
Francis H. Burr '35, the Corporation member who signed the letter, said, "We want people to focus on what course of action the University should take in the next ten years, and then decide what type of leadership will be needed to accomplish such action...